Recovering photos deleted from iPhone more than a month ago

Before giving up, look in the Hidden album (Albums, right at the bottom under Utilities) and, if you use it, the Shared Library. I've had photos I was sure I deleted turn up in Hidden more than once.

Honestly, from the phone itself they're gone. Recently Deleted only holds them for about 30 days and then the iPhone wipes them, and the paid recovery apps don't get around that on a modern iPhone, whatever the ads say. Where they might still be: - an older backup on a computer (Finder or iTunes), if you ever plugged the phone in to back it up - an iCloud backup, but only if iCloud Photos was OFF. if it was on, the deletion synced everywhere - Google Photos, OneDrive or Dropbox, if any of them was set to back up the camera roll - a Mac's Photos library that isn't syncing with iCloud - WhatsApp chats or shared albums, if you'd sent them to anyone Careful with backups: restoring one replaces everything on the phone with that older state, so save what's on there now first.